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R Data Wrangling and Manipulation: Parts 1-2
March 19, 2024
It is said that 80% of data analysis is spent on the process of cleaning and preparing the data for exploration, visualization, and analysis. This R workshop will introduce the dplyr and tidyr packages to make data wrangling and manipulation easier. Participants will learn how to use these packages...Read more about R Data Wrangling and Manipulation: Parts 1-2
R Data Visualization
March 20, 2024
This workshop will provide an introduction to graphics in R with ggplot2. Participants will learn how to construct, customize, and export a variety of plot types in order to visualize relationships in data. We will also explore the basic grammar of graphics, including the aesthetics and geometry...Read more about R Data Visualization
Python Text Analysis Fundamentals: Parts 1-2
March 21, 2024
This two-part workshop series will prepare participants to move forward with research that uses text analysis, with a special focus on humanities and social science applications.Read more about Python Text Analysis Fundamentals: Parts 1-2
Python Intermediate: Parts 1-3
April 2, 2024
This three-part interactive workshop series teaches you intermediate programming Python for people with previous programming experience equivalent to our Python Fundamentals workshop. By the end of the series, you will be able to apply your knowledge of basic principles of programming and data...Read more about Python Intermediate: Parts 1-3
Digital Humanities Working Group (April 2024)
April 2, 2024
The UC Berkeley Digital Humanities Working Group is a research community founded to facilitate interdisciplinary conversations in the digital humanities and cultural analytics. Our gatherings are participant driven and provide a place for sharing research ideas (including brainstorming new ideas...Read more about Digital Humanities Working Group (April 2024)
Python Geospatial Fundamentals: Parts 1-2
April 2, 2024
Geospatial data are an important component of data visualization and analysis in the social sciences, humanities, and elsewhere. The Python programming language is a great platform for exploring these data and integrating them into your research.Read more about Python Geospatial Fundamentals: Parts 1-2
Python Text Analysis: Topic Modeling
April 4, 2024
In this part, we study unsupervised learning of text data. This is a stand alone work that builds from the two-part text analysis series.Read more about Python Text Analysis: Topic Modeling
Python Text Analysis: Word Embeddings
April 11, 2024
How can we use neural networks to create meaningful representations of words? The bag-of-words is limited in its ability to characterize text, because it does not utilize word context.Read more about Python Text Analysis: Word Embeddings
Survey Fundamentals
April 11, 2024
This two-hour workshop offers a comprehensive introduction to designing and conducting survey studies. Tailored for beginners, it provides clear, step-by-step guidance complemented by concise examples, practical considerations, and useful support materials. Participants will learn the entire...Read more about Survey Fundamentals
Python Machine Learning Fundamentals: Parts 1-2
April 16, 2024
This workshop introduces students to scikit-learn, the popular machine learning library in Python, as well as the auto-ML library built on top of scikit-learn, TPOT. The focus will be on scikit-learn syntax and available tools to apply machine learning algorithms to datasets. No theory instruction...Read more about Python Machine Learning Fundamentals: Parts 1-2
R Fundamentals: Parts 1-4
April 29, 2024
This workshop is a four-part introductory series that will teach you R from scratch with clear introductions, concise examples, and support documents. You will learn how to download and install the open-sourced R Studio software, understand data and basic manipulations, import and subset data,...Read more about R Fundamentals: Parts 1-4
Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-3
April 29, 2024
This three-part interactive workshop series is your complete introduction to programming Python for people with little or no previous programming experience. By the end of the series, you will be able to apply your knowledge of basic principles of programming and data manipulation to a real-world...Read more about Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-3
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May 18, 2024
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